Color Is A Beautiful Thing

Multi-disciplinary artist Alteronce Gumby is pleased to announce his first monograph, Color is a Beautiful Thing, published by Charles Moffett and False Flag Galleries. The book follows Gumby’s spring 2021 dual-site exhibition of new work at both galleries, Somewhere Under the Rainbow / The Sky is Blue and What am I. 

The book acts as a survey of Gumby’s career from 2015 to 2021, touching on his longtime thematic considerations of how light, physics, natural energies and color can be contextualized into a larger societal conversation about race. Gumby’s work also includes social considerations pertaining to the spiritual practices native to the locations from which he sources the gemstones featured across his oeuvre. Also explored is the artist’s present-day elucidation of mid century geometric abstraction; Gumby appropriates the movement’s formal qualities while imbuing the work with themes and influences diametric to the reductive nature and prescribed forms of the midcentury canon. 

The book features an essay by Guggenheim Curator Ashley James and an introductory interview conducted by Gagosian Director Antwaun Sargent